Improvement in attaching dbaught poles to axles



IMPRQVEMENT IN ATTACHING DRAUGHT POLES T AXLES.

no. SMITH, or BIRMINGHAM, ooNNEoTIoUT..

Letters Patent No. 60,075, dated November 27, 1866. v

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, E. C. SMITH, of Birmingham, in the county of New Haven, and State of:A Connecticut, have`invented a new and improved Mode of Attaching Draught Poles to Axles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others. skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying. drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- 4Figure 1 is a plan or top view of my invention, partly in section.

Figure 2, a section of the same, taken in the line a: z, fig. I.

Figure 3, a section of the same, taken in the line y y, fig. '1.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

This invention relates-to a new and improved mode of attaching draught poles to axles, whe'reby a draught pole may be attached to axles of different vehicles. The clips which receive the eyes of the cross-hereof draught poles are not placed in the same place on the front l'axles of different vehicles; they vary materially;

and the object 'of my invention is to have theeyes of the cross-bars attached to the latter in Vsuch a manner i that they may be adjusted to suitthe position of theclips at whatever point they may be placed.`

A represents the rear portion of a draught pole, and B a part of the cross-bar which is attached toy the realend of the same, said cross-barbeing braced, as usual, by rods C, as shown clearly in g. 1. The crossbar B has oblong mortisres or notches D made through it, one near each end, and has an iron bar E secured .to its under side and extending its whole length. F represents an eye Kformed at one end of a short metal bar "G,- which is constructed with an oblong slot or opening a, as shown clearly in iig. 3, to admit of the barE passing through it, said har G being fitted on the bar E within the mortise or notch D, the latter being suiiciently long to admit of acertainv degree of movement or adjustment of G on E, H is a steel `gib or key, formed .with two lips b b, at such adistance apart as to embrace the sides of the har G near its front end, as shown in fig. 1, the gib or key being fitted in the slot a of the bar G, and bearing against the front side of the bar E. The front end of the bar G hasia hole made in it which is tapped or provided with an internal screw-thxjead, to receive a steel screw I, by screwing up which the bar G may be rmly secured to the bar- E at any point within the mortise or notch D. The other erd of the cross-bar B of the draught pole, which is not shownin the drawing, is provided with a similar mortise or notch, and has a bar G fittedto itin precisely the same wa'y as the one shown and described; andit will be seen by this arrangement the bars'G, and consequently the eyes F, may be adjusted to suit the position of the clips on the front axle of a vehicle. v

Thus it will be seen that a draught pole may, by a very simple adjustment, be applied to differentvehicles, andV by quite -a simple and inexpensive means.

What I claimV as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The bars G, with the eyes F at'their rear ends, fitted on the iron bar E of the cross-bar B, ,within Inortises` or notchesD made therein, and provided with the gib or key H and screw I, all arranged substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

J E. C. SMITH.

Witnesses l SEABUaY B. PLATT, SAMUEL Mints. 

